STAMFORD -- A middle-aged white man wearing a neck brace and a dark wig walked into First County Bank on Hope Street in Springdale on Tuesday, passed a threatening note to a teller, showed a gun and got away in a waiting car with more $1,000.

The robber also wore sunglasses, a black Nike jacket with a white horizontal stripe across the chest and a black winter cap, Police Lt. Diedrich Hohn said.

The bank robber said in the note that "he had nothing to live for" and that he "has a weapon and will harm the teller if the money is not turned over," Hohn said. The teller turned over an undisclosed amount of money after the robber showed a handgun, Hohn said.

No one was injured during the robbery and no customers were in the bank at the time. The robber ran out of the back door of the bank and got into a waiting gray car that sped west on Mulberry Street, Hohn said.

The bank reported the robbery at 1110 Hope St., at the intersection of Mulberry Street, at 10:22 a.m. Tuesday.

"At this time we believe he might have been a passenger. We are looking at every angle and are checking cameras in the area. ... We have reports of it being a silver car," Hohn said.

Police closed down Mulberry Street for about an hour and checked video surveillance tapes from businesses and homes in the area in hopes of identifying the robber.

Hohn said police are not sure if the neck brace was a disguise, or the man was disabled or had an injury. In his note, the man said that he has a disability, but Hohn would not disclose exactly what that was, or how much money was taken except to say it was over $1,000.

"It was a pretty violent note. He said he would do harm to the teller with a weapon. He had some inside knowledge of the workings of the bank and we are looking at that too ... He said he had a gun and a silencer and he would do harm to the teller," Hohn said.

Hohn said the note was rambling and appeared to have been written by someone desperate for money.

The last bank robbery in the city took place two months ago on Oct. 12, when a black man walked into a TD Bank branch on Summer Street with a knapsack and threatened to detonate a bomb if he did not get a lot of cash, police said.

The rush-hour robbery netted about $5,000, police said at the time. There has been an arrest in connection with that case, police said.